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Drawing on the application of spatial analytical tools (based on floating catchment area (FCA) methods), this commentary highlights some of the challenges faced in promoting the use of geographical techniques to address aspects of government policy/delivery. There is an ever-expanding academic literature concerned with the application of FCA techniques in a range of thematic areas,…

The Census is used as the key source of data for tracking progress towards the Cymraeg 2050 target of reaching one million Welsh speakers by 2050. Different data sources, however, show very different levels of Welsh language skills. This Data Insight demonstrates the contribution that administrative data can make in terms of validating alternative measures…

This Data Insight provides new evidence on which Welsh students choose to study through the medium of Welsh when they attend university. Although those Welsh-domiciled students who attend University in Wales have lower levels of attainment than those who leave, those who remain and receive tuition through the medium of Welsh have higher levels of…

This Data Insight examines the characteristics of university entrants who leave Wales for the purposes of education and compares them to those who stay. Those students who leave Wales to attend university have higher levels of educational attainment than those who remain. The Welsh language, deprivation and social class background also play a role, with…

This Data Insight uses linked administrative data to explore the levels of fluency in the Welsh language among different groups of young people in Wales at both compulsory and non compulsory stages of education. Forty percent of those children recorded as having no Welsh skills in the 2011 Census are recorded as being able to…

This Data Insight provides new insights on the intergenerational transmission of the Welsh language available through the use of administrative data. It explores how attendance at either English or Welsh medium schools contributes to the intergenerational loss or gain in Welsh language skills. Based upon the self-reported language skills of young adults, rates of intergenerational…

This article provides a spatial analysis of working at home. It makes distinctions according to the extent to which the boundaries of work and home spatially overlap. Using this conceptual lens, it deploys data from Britain′s Skills and Employment Survey to track the trends and patterns of homeworking and hybrid working over the last two…

This briefing is from the project ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Civil Society Action against Language Death and Cultural Oppression: Evidence and Lessons from India’ funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences. The research explores the issues, challenges and lessons that emerge from civil society action to support indigenous languages and cultures. Specifically, we focus on…

This is the second briefing from the project ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Civil Society Action’ funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences. Our research explores the issues, challenges and lessons that emerge from civil society action to support indigenous languages and cultures. Here we focus on the Irula tribe of Kerala. They are one of…

Mae adroddiad Gogledd Iwerddon wedi’i strwythuro’n fras i adlewyrchu’r dimensiynau o ansawdd gwaith a nodir yn Fframwaith Carnegie. Mae’r adroddiad hwn yn canolbwyntio ar yr agweddau nad ydynt yn dâl ar ansawdd swyddi. Nid yw gwybodaeth am dâl a budd-daliadau wedi’i chynnwys gan fod data swyddogol a gyhoeddwyd ar y meysydd hyn yn cael ei…